Mia
The girl's name Mia has been in the national records since 1933, with 310,610 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 6th. About 307,000 Mias are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 12.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Mia boys named Mia
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 310,610
- Estimated living today
- 307,000
- Median age today
- 12
- Peak year
- 2015
- Best rank
- 6th
- Rank in 2025
- 6th
- First recorded
- 1933
- Girls / boys
- 310,219 / 391
How old the living Mias are
born that year still alive today
Of the 310,610 babies given the name since 1933, about 307,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 218,000 of them are children and 400 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2013 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
A German, Dutch and gmq diminutive of Maria.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Mias
- Mia Khalifa (born 1993)Lebanese-American former pornographic film actress
- Mia Farrow (born 1945)American actress
- Mia Mottley (born 1965)prime minister of Barbados since 2018
- Mia Hamm (born 1972)American soccer player
- Mia Wasikowska (born 1989)Australian actress
- Mia Goth (born 1993)British actress
- Mia Malkova (born 1992)American pornographic actress
- Mia Martini (1947–1995)Italian singer
People named Mia with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Mia is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Mia is most concentrated in Nevada (3.0×), Arizona (2.4×), Florida (2.0×), California (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2015
The most popular girls’ names the year Mia peaked:
Mia elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Mia | 68,567 | 7th |
| France girls | Mia +2 spellings | 29,695 | 11th |
| Italy girls | Mia | 21,126 | — |
| Spain girls | Mia | 14,568 | 16th |
| Poland girls | Mia +1 spelling | 11,456 birth registrations | 33rd |
| Austria girls | Mia | 9,555 | 4th |
| Norway girls | Mia | 8,539 | 11th |
| Switzerland girls | Mia +1 spelling | 8,070 | 1st |
| Ireland girls | Mia +1 spelling | 7,002 | 6th |
| Denmark girls | Mia | 5,745 | 19th |
| Scotland girls | Mia | 4,759 | 10th |
| Belgium girls | Mia +1 spelling | 4,402 | 8th |
| New Zealand girls | Mia | 3,596 | 8th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Mia | 2,238 | 16th |
| France boys | Mia | 5 | 5,442nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Mia: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Mia | 6,457 | 0.519% | 1st |
| German girls | Switzerland | Mía | 16 | 0.001% | 867th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Mia | 1,257 | 0.289% | 2nd |
| French girls | Switzerland | Mía | 15 | 0.003% | 512th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Mia | 304 | 0.466% | 2nd |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Mía | 1 | 0.002% | 176th |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Mia | 20 | 0.538% | 2nd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Mia is most concentrated in Schaffhausen, where 0.76% of children were given it – 112 of them.
Mia: rank by region
In 2025, Mia was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Mia | 19 | 144 |
| Wallonia | Mia | 21 | 97 |
| Brussels | Mia | 21 | 27 |
In 2024, Mia was among the 10 most common names in 5 regions of Spain.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illes Balears | Mia | 9 | 55 |
| Cantabria | Mia | 8 | 21 |
| Cataluña | Mia | 4 | 321 |
| Comunitat Valenciana | Mia | 9 | 205 |
| Galicia | Mia | 8 | 89 |
In 2024, Mia was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Mia | 7 | 2 |
In 2025, Mia was given 2 times or more in 16 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Mia | 33 | 87 |
| Kujawsko-Pomorskie | Mia | 39 | 43 |
| Lubelskie | Mia | 49 | 25 |
| Lubuskie | Mia | 28 | 33 |
| Łódzkie | Mia | 38 | 56 |
| Małopolskie | Mia | 42 | 84 |
| Mazowieckie | Mia | 41 | 143 |
| Opolskie | Mia | 26 | 32 |
| Podkarpackie | Mia | 44 | 39 |
| Podlaskie | Mia | 59 | 13 |
| Pomorskie | Mia | 31 | 90 |
| Śląskie | Mia | 28 | 130 |
| Świętokrzyskie | Mia | 45 | 15 |
| Warmińsko-Mazurskie | Mia | 38 | 34 |
| Wielkopolskie | Mia | 31 | 122 |
| Zachodniopomorskie | Mia | 22 | 66 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Mia appears in the lists for Province of Limburg (8th), Province of Hainaut (9th), Province of Antwerp (10th), Province of Flemish Brabant (10th), Brussels-Capital Region (21st), Province of Walloon Brabant (21st), Province of Liège (23rd), Province of Namur (31st), Province of East Flanders (43rd), Province of Luxembourg (46th) and Province of West Flanders (52nd).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Mia by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 1,459 | 2nd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Mia among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Mia | 7,008 | 8,197 |
| the Netherlands girls | Mia | 1,524 | 2,746 |
| the Netherlands boys | Mia | — | 83 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026, the Netherlands on 1 January 2018 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Mia lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 16,391 women called Mia were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barcelona | Mia | 3,411 | 1.121 | 145 |
| Girona | Mia | 445 | 1.075 | 152 |
| Tarragona | Mia | 447 | 1.022 | 166 |
| Balears, Illes | Mia | 623 | 0.993 | 146 |
| Málaga | Mia | 745 | 0.813 | 170 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Mia | 834 | 0.811 | 183 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Mia against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.